Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story
Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in fantasy fiction short stories |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation |
First awarded | 1995 |
Currently held by | Tansy Rayner Roberts |
Website | Official site |
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers".[2] To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year;[3] the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people.[4]
Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction.[2] The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchmark in science fiction and fantasy. The continued sponsorship by publishers such as HarperCollins and Orbit has identified the award as an honour to be taken seriously.[5]
The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists.[2] Ties can occur if the panel decides both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.[6] The judges may declare a "no award" if there is unanimous agreement that none of the nominees are worthy.[6] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[7]
This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best fantasy short story category, as well as short stories that have received honourable mentions or have been highly commended. Since 2003, honourable mentions and high commendations have been awarded intermittently. holds the record for most wins, having won three times. Angela Slatter holds the record for most nominations, having been nominated seven times. Adam Browne, Kaaron Warren, and share the record for most nominations without winning, each having been losing finalists three times.
Winners and nominees[]
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Winners and joint winners
* Nominees on the shortlist
Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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1995 | Karen Attard* | "Harvest Bay" | Eidolon | [8] |
1995 | "" | () | [8][9] | |
1995 | "" | Aurealis | [8] | |
1995 | Kaaron Warren | "The Blue Stream" | Aurealis | [8] |
1995 | "The Other Side of Paradise" | Eidolon | [8] | |
1996 | Russell Blackford* | "The Sword of God" | Penguin (Dream Weavers) | [9][10] |
1996 | Isobelle Carmody | "Green Monkey Dreams" | Viking (Green Monkey Dreams) | [9][10] |
1996 | Matthew Condon | "Tattoo" | UQP () | [9][10] |
1996 | Sara Douglass | "Of Fingers and Foreskins" | Eidolon | [10] |
1996 | "" | Allen & Unwin () | [9][10] | |
1997 | Lucy Sussex* | "Merlusine" | Roc (The Horns of Elfland) | [9][11] |
1997 | "" | Penguin () | [9][11] | |
1997 | "" | Anchor () | [9][11] | |
1997 | "" | Eidolon | [11] | |
1997 | Janeen Webb | "Death at the Blue Elephant" | HarperCollins () | [9][11] |
1998 | Stephen Dedman* | "A Walk-On Part in the War" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [9][12] |
1998 | Kerry Greenwood | "Jetsam" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [9][12] |
1998 | Sean McMullen | "Queen of Soulmates" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [9][12] |
1998 | Jane Routley | "To Avalon" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [9][12] |
1998 | Keith Taylor | "The Bath-house" | Moonstone (Fantastic Worlds) | [9][12] |
1999 | Trudi Canavan* | "Whispers of the Mist Children" | Aurealis | [13] |
1999 | Adam Browne | "Orlando's Third Trance" | [13] | |
1999 | "" | [13] | ||
1999 | Lucy Sussex | "The Queen of Erewhon" | F&SF | [13] |
1999 | Janeen Webb | "Incident on Wolfe Street" | [13] | |
2000 | Geoffrey Maloney* | "The World According to Kipling (A Plain Tale from the Hills)" | Aurealis | [14] |
2000 | "" | Voyager () | [9][14] | |
2000 | "" | [14] | ||
2000 | Margo Lanagan | "" | Allen & Unwin () | [9][14] |
2000 | Kaaron Warren | "" | Orb | [14] |
2001 | Sue Isle* | "The Woman of Endor" | Orb | [15] |
2001 | Jack Dann | "The Diamond Pit" | Voyager (Jubilee) | [9][15] |
2001 | Terry Dowling | "" | Sci Fiction | [15] |
2001 | Matthew Farrer | "" | (Nor of Human...) | [9][15] |
2001 | Kaaron Warren | "The Speaker of Heaven" | Orb | [15] |
2002 | No award given | — | — | [16] |
2003 | Lucy Sussex* | "La Sentinelle" | (Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural) | [9][17] |
2003 | "" | [17] | ||
2003 | Marianne de Pierres | "" | () | [9][17] |
2003 | Garth Nix | "" | Penguin Books (Firebirds) | [9][17] |
2004 | Richard Harland* | "Catabolic Magic" | Aurealis | [18] |
2004 | Louise Katz* | "Weavers of the Twilight" | Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) | [9][18] |
2004 | Lee Battersby | "" | Orb | [18] |
2004 | K. J. Bishop | "Alsiso" | Elastic Press () | [18][19] |
2004 | Paul Haines | "The Gift of Hindsight" | Aurealis | [18] |
2005 | Richard Harland* | "The Greater Death of Saito Saku" | Agog! (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) | [9][20] |
2005 | Rosaleen Love* | "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" | Aqueduct Press (The Traveling Tide); Agog! (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) | [9][20] |
2005 | Adam Browne | "Heart of Saturday Night" | [9][20] | |
2005 | "" | [20] | ||
2005 | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [20] | |
2006 | Margo Lanagan* | "A Fine Magic" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | [9][21] |
2006 | Lee Battersby | "" | Prime Books (Through Soft Air) | [9][21] |
2006 | "" | Fantasy Magazine | [21] | |
2006 | Lucy Sussex | "The Revenant" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | [9][21] |
2006 | Anna Tambour | "" | Agog! () | [9][21] |
2007 | Garth Nix* | "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again" | Jim Baen's Universe | [22] |
2007 | "" | Strange Horizons | [22] | |
2007 | Adam Browne | "" | Orb | [22] |
2007 | Angela Slatter | "" | Shimmer | [22] |
2007 | Cat Sparks | "" | Orb | [22] |
2008 | Cat Sparks* | "Sammarynda Deep" | (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy) | [9][23] |
2008 | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [23] | |
2008 | "" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [23] | |
2008 | Angela Slatter | "" | Shimmer | [23] |
2008 | Kim Westwood | "Nightship" | HarperVoyager () | [9][23] |
2009 | Christopher Green* | "Father's Kill" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [24] |
2009 | Ian McHugh* | "Once a Month, On a Sunday" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [24] |
2009 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "" | () | [24] |
2009 | Angela Slatter | "" | The Lifted Brow | [24] |
2009 | Lucy Sussex | "Something Better than Death" | Aurealis | [24] |
2010 | * (tie) | "" | () | [25] |
2010 | and Angela Slatter* (tie) | "" | Ticonderoga Publications () | [25] |
2010 | "" | Strange Horizons | [26] | |
2010 | Andrew McKiernan | "" | Brimstone Press () | [26] |
2010 | Angela Slatter | "" | Tartarus Press () | [26] |
2011 | * | "" | (After the Rain) | [27] |
2011 | Margo Lanagan | "The Proving of Smollett Standforth" | HarperVoyager (Ghosts by Gaslight) | [28] |
2011 | Margo Lanagan | "Into the Clouds on High" | Allen & Unwin (Yellowcake) | [28] |
2011 | "Reading Coffee" | Overland | [28] | |
2011 | "The Dark Night of Anton Weiss" | Ticonderoga Publications (More Scary Kisses) | [28] | |
2012 | Margo Lanagan* | "Bajazzle" | (Cracklescape) | [29] |
2012 | "Sanaa's Army" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bloodstones) | [30] | |
2012 | Isobelle Carmody | "The Stone Witch" | Random House (Under My Hat) | [30] |
2012 | "First They Came" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 55 | [30] | |
2012 | Margo Lanagan | "The Isles of the Sun" | (Cracklescape) | [30] |
2013 | Jay Kristoff* | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | [31][32] |
2013 | "The Touch of the Taniwha" | (Fish) | [31] | |
2013 | Ian McHugh | "Cold, Cold War" | (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) | [31] |
2013 | "Short Circuit" | Oomph (Oomph: a little super goes a long way) | [31] | |
2013 | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | [31] |
2014 | Angela Slatter* | "St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls" | Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3 | [33] |
2014 | "The Oud" | (Long Hidden) | [34] | |
2014 | "Teratogen" | Cemetery Dance 71 | [34] | |
2014 | "The Ghost of Hepaestus" | (Cranky Ladies of History) | [34] | |
2014 | Angela Slatter | "The Badger Bride" | Tartarus Press (Strange Tales IV) | [34] |
2015 | Rowena Cory Daniells* | "The Giant's Lady" | (Legends 2) | [35] |
2015 | "The Jellyfish Collector" | Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 13, Issue 6 | [36] | |
2015 | "A Shot of Salt Water" | (The Dark) | [36] | |
2015 | "Almost Days" | (Insert Title Here) | [36] | |
2015 | "Blueblood" | Ticonderoga Publications (Hear Me Roar) | [36] | |
2015 | "Husk and Sheaf" | SQ Mag 22 | [36] | |
2016 | * | "Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest" | (In Your Face) | [37][38] |
2016 | "Watercress Soup" | Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 65 | [37] | |
2016 | Jack Nicholls | "Dune Time" | Tor.com | [37] |
2016 | Garth Nix | "Penny For a Match, Mister?" | Saga Press (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales) | [37] |
2016 | "The Lighthouse at Cape Defeat" | Aurealis 89 | [37] | |
2016 | "The Cartographer's Price" | Mythic Delirium 3.1 | [37] | |
2017 | Tansy Rayner Roberts* | "The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried" | self-published (Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories) | [39][40] |
2017 | "Hamelin's Graves" | Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 69 | [39] | |
2017 | Angela Slatter | "The Little Mermaid, in Passing" | Review of Australian Fiction Vol 22 Issue 1 | [39] |
2017 | "Duplicity" | coeur de lion (Dimension6 #11) | [39] | |
2017 | "The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz" | Feminartsy | [39] | |
2017 | Lili Wilkinson | "Oona Underground" | HarperCollins Publishers (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | [39] |
2018 | * | "The Further Shore" | Bourbon Penn 15 | [41][42] |
2018 | Alan Baxter | "Crying Demon" | (Suspended in Dusk 2) | [41] |
2018 | Juliet Marillier | "Army Men" | (Of Gods and Globes) | [41] |
2018 | "Child of the Emptyness" | Grimdark Magazine 17 | [41] | |
2018 | "A Moment's Peace" | (A Hand of Knaves) | [41][43] | |
2018 | "Heartwood, Sapwood, Spring" | Ate Bit Bear (Sword and Sonnet) | [41] | |
2019 | Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Dragon By Subscription" | (self-published on Patreon) | [44][45] |
2019 | "Loose Stones" | Brio Books (Infinite Threads) | [44] | |
2019 | "1078 Reasons" | Translunar Travelers Lounge | [44] | |
2019 | "Pigshit and Gold" | Dimension6 18 | [44] | |
2019 | "CurioQueens" | Constellary Tales Magazine 4 | [44] | |
2019 | Juliet Marillier | "Good Dog, Alice" | Titan Books (Wonderland) | [44] |
2020 | Louise Pieper | "Truth Be Told" | Unnatural Order | [46][47] |
2020 | Nikky Lee | "The Dead May Dance" | Midnight Echo 15 | [46] |
2020 | Garth Nix | "The Case of the Somewhat Mythic Sword" | Tor.com | [46] |
2020 | J. Z. Ting | "Terracotta Daughter" | Coppice & Brake | [46] |
2020 | Suzanne J. Willis | "A Solace of Shadows" | Three Crows Magazine #7 | [46] |
Honourable mentions and high commendations[]
The honourable mentions and high commendations are announced alongside the list of finalists for their respected year of eligibility.[6] In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a grey background have been noted as highly commended; those with a white background have received honourable mentions. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Highly commended
* Honourable mentions
Year | Author | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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2003 | Brendan Duffy | "" | Agog! () | [9] |
2003 | "" | Agog! () | [9] | |
2004 | Trudi Canavan* | "" | Wakefield Press () | [9] |
2006 | "" | [9] | ||
2006 | "" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | [9] |
See also[]
- Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969
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External links[]
- Aurealis Awards
- Australian fantasy
- Fantasy awards
- Lists of speculative fiction-related award winners and nominees
- Short story awards